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5 stars for Gitaroo Man!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Gitaroo-Man is an great innovative game for the PS2.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Gitaroo-Man is the story of U-1, a kid that is in love with Pico, Pico has a friend named Kazuya that is a snob and sees U-1 as a loser. U-1 wants Kazuya to like him and tell him that he is cool, but he can't do it.

One day, his dog Puma tells him that him that he is that last in the Gitaroo-Mans, and that he has to save planet of Gitaroo from the evil Gravillians. Can U-1 do it?

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Graphics:

Gitaroo-Man's graphics are great! Everything seems to look good. No blocky [stuff], or poorly drawn stuff. Really good for Playstation 2. It has a nice inter face and is easy to navigate.

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SOUND:

Well, since Gitaroo-Man is a music game, you would expect atleast one good song in the game, and it delivers that. It has great songs, (I think they're WAY BETTER that Parappa The Rapper 2) that involve the player and enemy to sort-of play the song. My favorite songs are Flyin' To Your Heart (Stage 2), and Born To Be Bone (Stage 7).

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GAMEPLAY:

Gitaroo-Man may sound easy and may look confusing before playing it, but is very challenging though, once you get used to it, it's not a fasted pasted button masher.

A stage is broken into 3 stages:

Charge: In charge, you follow a blue line around the screen using the left analog stick, you must point your arrow directly on it to turn it green and play riffs and power up your power gauge (all at the same time). To play a riff, when following the trace line, click and hold the O/cicrle button on a red, highlight thingy, until it's gone. You can click any other face button, but I find it easiest with the O/cicrle button. It will also tell you how well you did, for instance: miss, ok, good, and great.

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BATTLE:

The battle part is composed of two parts: the attack, and guard. They alternate

Attack: Attack is just like guard, but when you now play riffs, you inflict damage to the computer's power guage.

Guard: Guard is where the computer shoots attacks at you and you have to dodge them according to when they come in. You have a sort-of + (plus) thing and face buttons come in according to where they are located on the controler. You have to click them in order to dodge them. Not to hard.

Final: Final is where you can finish off the opponet, it's the same as attack, but if you finish this, you beat the level.

Although this can be hard to non-music game players, it can be picked up and is addictive. It sounds more than it is, but it seems very simple while playing. Some levels seem impossible, and you'll play a lot, they keep you playing.

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VALUE:

Although Gitaroo-Man isn't a libary of levels, it has some hard ones, some fun, and some wierd ones, they have really good songs. Besides, who would want tons of levels that stink than some excellent ones.

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REVIEWER'S TILT:

Even though it's shaort, it's memorable, fun, challenging and will keep you entertained. Koei's interesting choice of gameplay and unique storyline brightens the game and is new,with such good songs, you would wish everygame had this kind of quality.

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OVER-ALL:

Buy it if you love music games! But, if you're new to them and just learning, I suggest you learn you controler because it might not be very easy in the beginning.

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FINAL SCORE:

9.5 - suberb, according to gamespot.com's rating stystem.

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